Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another difficulty of the last 11 or 12 years is that we have always faced west , towards the United States of America . |
| 2 | One distinct advantage of metformin over the sulphonylureas in obese Type 2 patients is that it does tend to suppress appetite and certainly therapy is usually associated with weight loss ( Taylor et al , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 4 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 5 | The current disposition of responsibilities between the three posts is as follows : |
| 6 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 7 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 8 | The most ambitious of the three catalogues is that from Brussels , which includes art from Pole to Pole . |
| 9 | One of the reasons why the polytechnics have done so well in the past 21 years is that a clear decision was taken by Governments of both parties to separate funding and quality control . |
| 10 | If the answer to any of these three questions is that the restraint goes further than required , the restrictive covenant is likely to infringe Article 85(1) . |
| 11 | The only thing that unites these three arrangements is that in each case a minority class rules and takes the surplus away from the producers . |
| 12 | The significance of these three relations is that through them subjects are constituted and although the relations have a relation to each other , none is reducible to any other . |
| 13 | ‘ What I like about the three guys is that they actually care about that . |
| 14 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |
| 15 | By far the commonest of these three connectives is and . |
| 16 | Another difference between the characterization of Alison and that of the three men is that she is seen totally from the outside — one sees her appearance in her face and her clothes ; we see what actions she does . |
| 17 | What I find fascinating about these eight pages is that they are sustained by rage — by a controlled yet immense rage against a government which could allow its veterans to die — and that Hemingway has the skill to let his anger unroll , rather like one of the giant waves caused by the hurricane , until his readers are held afloat upon it . |
| 18 | The depressing news for the Iron Lady who ruled Britain for 11 years is that nine out of ten can not recall the day she quit , according to research revealed yesterday at the British Psychological Society 's London conference . |
| 19 | The obvious danger under the 1981 arrangements is that , given the overwhelming percentage of votes from outside the Commons , a new Leader might have little support in the PLP . |
| 20 | The effect of the pre-enrolment registration of Stage I and of the term 2 registration of Stage II modules is that all subsequent minor changes are to an agreed , full programme . |
| 21 | THE cry of SPRED for the past 25 years is that ‘ No-one believes alone ’ . |
| 22 | One significant advance in the last ten years is that there are now specialist forensic psychiatry services in most Health Service Regions , and most Regions have constructed special Regional Secure Units ( RSUs ) where mentally disturbed offenders can be assessed . |
| 23 | The common feature in these five cases is that the mother had been resident in Seascale at some time since the early 1950s , when the Sellafield nuclear plant came into operation . |
| 24 | However , the easiest way to distinguish the two groups is that the walker/scrambler will stand at the bottom of a difficult and dangerous mountain looking for a safe and easy way up , and the climber/dangler will stand at the foot of a safe and easy mountain looking for a difficult and dangerous way up . |
| 25 | One difference between the two views is that Keynesians believe money is a close substitute for financial assets , whereas the monetarists argue that money is not a particularly close substitute for any specific range of assets . |
| 26 | The major difference between these two forms is that CPM assumes that the time required to complete an activity can be predicted fairly accurately , and thus the costs involved can be quantified once the critical path has been identified , whereas PERT assumes that time has to be estimated in drawing up the critical path . |
| 27 | The most immediately obvious difference between the two recordings is that TER 's is on two CDs whereas Sony 's is accommodated on just one . |
| 28 | We are introduced to Pemberton at the point where he is screwing up courage to say something about money , and all that happens in the subsequent two paragraphs is that the boy returns and his effort is frustrated . |
| 29 | One important difference between the two lists is that those in list ( a ) refer to internal events and states , whilst those in list ( b ) denote external and therefore observable behaviour . |
| 30 | A constant problem with promoting all four gardens is that we never have enough leaflets to supply all the outlets that request them . |